Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1938-12-30

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Voluine 18.  No. 2.
COIjUSIBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, DEC. 30,1038
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The results obtained by the Nazis in the collection of the first Instalment of the $400,000,- flOO fine on the Jews were not so good . . . Hitler had to accept bonds and real estate at their face value instead of the usual reduced value assigned to prop¬ erly hold by non-Aj'Ens . . . Gabby Goobbols is in for a hot time by the middle of next year, when all the fine is supposed to be collected . . . For as we told you last week, it was Goebbols ¦ivho got this, bright idea, and upon tho success of it his stand¬ ing with I-Iiller depends . . . The Tcason why Gabby has spoken so slightingly of the Quaker mis aion that is looking Naziland over is because during the post¬ -war years when Quakers were "¦~' feeding- over a million Germans • Goebbels didn't need thoir help ... A -Gorman Jew was his patron at the time, paying his expenses during Goebbels' futile exposure to an education ... A left-handed success for Goebbels propaganda machine is recorded l:y Mr. Stanley High, who re¬ lates that when a Czech air squadron was ordered to attack Berlin , during the stormy autumnal equinoctial season the ilyers returned to Prague with the report that Hitler had Jiih'eady done the job of destruc-
livp'Tn'-i rtA '^f'^* W" *^'''*' l™Pr«s ¦""""ift^i^jngcfr-ft-uii'i the sight,of demolished buildings and torn- > ¦• up" streets, the preparation for Adolf's 1000-year rebuilding pro¬ gram, FOREIGN FLASHES
Hitler's success in shifting his l>aby, the refugee problem, into the lap of other nations is lu- ¦  spiring   Poland   to   further   ef¬ forts   to   make   somebody   else , worry,about her 3,O00,ob6 Jews . . . We predict that If and when somebody    does    finally    take ,over the German Jewish retu- , geef.<he world will suddenly find , .^tpelf confronted with the Polish "•   Jewish problem too ..: Prepara¬ tory legislation for this eventual¬ ity is   already   under   way   in Poland . .. Those who have been insisting that the Spanish civil war has nothing to do with tho - fight against Fascism ought to sing another tune now that the new  Nazi  submarine bases  in rebel I.Spain have been revealed . ¦ . It you want to know what European countiy is .slated for tho riext blow of. Hitler's    ax, we'll relay to you that Augur of Paris' — Vladimir Poliakoft to you—predicts that Rumania will be the next to fall, and will be ; fol]o\ycd by the Ukraine . . . The camtspign  against  Rumania,  of I coui/se; will be ostensibly car- ¦ rled oh to save that country from the domination  of Magda Lu- pescu ... In England govern¬ ment employes have been ord¬ ered to discuss no official busi¬ ness lit home, as hundreds of German spies are employed as ]'   domestic   sen'ants   in   British houses in the liope of learning sbni'ething  of  value  to  Hitler .,'. . But why is It that the Zion¬ ist leadership in London is again failing for the empty promises Jof the Colonial Office? Sy a    ftlEFPUEl')' PEl'AK'WIKN'i' ggrj   I    AU    credit    to    Bernard    M. igi f Barucli for his  ready help to ' *^' Indlvdual     Christian   refugees, ;   of whom this country has too '    many for the Christinn Refugee /     ComTOittee  to  iiandle  ...  No \o.s\i tlsnn fifty per cent of (he GqrJne.ii refugee authors in New yorK,;byj' ihe..way,   arc   pure
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At one of the most enthusi¬ astic meetings held in recent years by Zion Lodge, li'nai B'rith, last Monday evening, at
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the East Broad St. Temple, Ed¬ ward Schlezinger won the elec¬ tion for the post of Guardian over his opponent, Harry Gold¬ stein. Goldstein had been a con¬ scientious worker in local A.Z.A. chapter, the junior division of B'nai B'rith, while Schlezinger was Identified with tlxe lodge's degree team and othci' import¬ ant activities of the Order dur¬ ing tlie past few years. Although defeated in this contest, Gold¬ stein as-sured tho members of his continued loyalty and his allegiance to big work that has been projected by B'nai B'rith,
The accession to tho presi¬ dency of Zion Lodge by Frank V. Bayer came as a fitting trib¬ ute to his many years of faith¬ ful service to tho Order. He suc¬ ceeds William Wasserstrom dur¬ ing whose term of office the total membership had reached a new high of 750 men.
Other officers elected were Isadora Harris, 1st Vice-Pres.; Sanford Lakin, 2nd Vice-l=res.; Irwin Wolf, Assistant Monitor; Bernard Feitllnger, Warden; Joseph Goodman, Treasurer; Ralph Jaffee, Secretary and Simon Lazarus, Trustee.
The delegates chosen to at¬ tend the next district No. 2 con¬ vention to bo held in ICansas City, Mo. in 1939 are I. ¦ W. Garek, William Wasserstrom, Walter Katz, Harry Schwartz, Sam Gurevitz, Abe Wolman, Ben Neustadt and Frank V. Bayer.
Announcement was made at the meeting by President Was¬ serstrom that the installation of the new officers will take place at a banquet being ar¬ ranged for this occasion on Mon¬ day evening, Jan. 3th, at tho Broad St. Temple, Ed Schanfar- ber win be the installing of¬ ficer, representing the execu¬ tive committee of the Order, while Sidney G. Kussworm will deliver tlie main address. Plans are al.so under way for an ex¬ cellent program of entertain¬ ment to be annoimccd in next week's issue of ihe Chronicle
Tlie installation' dinner event will be open to all members and their wives at a nominal charge of 75c per plate. Walter Katz is In charge of arrange¬ ments while Dr. R. A. Jaffee will accept all reservations of memlicra by the return card mailed by him to all lien B'rlths of Columbus and noigliboiing townfi.
What is to be the fate of tho refugees from Nazi terror?
.This is the provocative ques¬ tion posed by "Tho Refugee— Today and Tomorrow," the new March of Time release now be¬ ing shown at the R. K. O. Grand Theatre on E. State St. Tho first motion picture to tell about the helpless victims of German ter¬ ror, this March of Time lays tho responsibility tor new atro¬ cities squarely at the door of the leaders of the Nazi state. It reveals the lives of people in Germany whose polities, race and religion differ from the State's doctrine, and sliows how many have been forced to emi¬ grate only after confinement of Nazi concentration camps.
In analyzing the refugee prob¬ lem, March of Time considers what the future holds in store for those victims of German in¬ tolerance. Reporting on the pos sibillty of solving the refugoe pi-oblem, -March of Time tiu'ns its cameras to Palestine, shows what has .been accomplished by .Jewish immigrants by hard work and limited financial sup¬ port. In bringing this pictorial indictment to the screen, March of Time shows how Hitler's out¬ rages have affected the rest of the xvorld and how, reacting to new atrocities, civilized nations have set about to help these refugee people build new lives.
The Chronicle recommends "The Refugee—Today and To¬ morrow" to it{5 readers, for it brings to all of us the dramatic story of to-day's most important unsolved problem.
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pHon. Robert H. Jackson, Solicitor General of tho United States, will be a principal speak¬ er ¦ at the N'Vtional Conference i'or Palestine which ^vitl hi! held in Washington, D,' C, Jan. U- 15th, luider the auspices of the United Palestine Appeal.
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Dr. Joseph Romcnyi, professor at Northwestern University, Cleveland, 0-, will bo the guest speaker at the Council of Jewish Women's Birthday Ijuncheon on next Tuesdaj-i afternoon, Jan. 3, at 12:30, at Hotel Fort Hayes. Members' will be soated at tables according to their own birth dates.
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BERLIN (WNS) — Foreign Offices hero learned of the strong German protest lodged with the United States Depart¬ ment of State over a speech by Secretary of tlie Interior Harold L. Ickea in which he attacked the dictators. The information said that Germany regarded Ickes' statements as "impudent and insulting."
The Nazi-controlled press gave the incident of Ickes' speech a great deal of attention and was particularly strong jn Its tone of reprobiition. Der Angrlff, of¬ ficial organ of Propaganda Minister Goebbels, accused Ickes of seeking war and disruption between tlie United States and Germany. Said Der Angriff: "Ickes la frankly the evil spirit present in American p61icy, and if it is now represented in Wash¬ ington that ickea spoke as a private person what must wo think of a democracy in whicli a minister never is in agreement with the Chief of State?" The National Zeitung of L'sson, organ of Hermann Goerlng, at¬ tacked Icktis for proposing to settle ronigi-e.-* (iiiin Geiniany in Alaska, a propo.-^al Mr. Ickes DiKde   on   NovemihT   2'i.   Our
Angrlff also criticized Attorney General Cummings and linked him with Mr. Ickes in "seeking the rupture of relations with Germany." (Attorney - General Cummings is considering a sug¬ gestion that he Join tlie staff of defense counselors for Herschcl Grynszpan whose trial for shoot¬ ing an under-Socretary at the German Embassy in Paris be¬ gins next summer.) Tlie Voel- Uischer Beobachtcr, Hitler's own newspaper, criticized Ickes for allowing Charles Chaplin's pro¬ jected film, "The Dictator," to begin production, claiming that the film was "progaganda against a state with which the United States is at peace." Ne.\t Move (Tp To Nazis nERLIN (WNS)—The Nazi government was deeply concern¬ ed over refusal by the United States- to issue a formal apology for Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes' speech recently de¬ livered in CleveUmd, No one in autliority here was willing to hazard a suggestion regawilng the next Nazi move, hut it was certain thgt a,n official, an¬ nouncement will lie forlhcoln- ing Foreign office oliservers had discIo,-=ud that the Na/i gov-
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WASHINGTON (WNS)—Dip¬ lomatic relations between the . United States and Germany were under tho severest strain since the World War following the rejection of a Nazi protest by Acting Secretary of State Summer Welles. Mr. Welles* re- fu.sal to accept the German de¬ mand for an apology for an at¬ tack made on dictators by Secre¬ tary of the Interior Harold L. . Ickes in a speech he delivered in Cleveland reconly to a Zion¬ ist audience, was accompanied I by a blunt reminder that the German government could hardly expect the United States to tolerate similar attadcs against United States ofiiCviia-- in tlie Nazi-controlled press.
The Acting Secretary inform¬ ed Dr. Hans Thomson, Gei'man Charge d'Affaircs in Wa-shing- ton, that Mr. Iclces had voiced the sentiment of the' greatest majority of the American people over (he recent policies pursued in Germany and that derogatoiy remarks in the Nazi press had been deeply resented here.
The rejection was the strong¬ est expres.slon of disapproval yet voiced by the United States government and was considered more pointed than the recent recalling of Hugh R. Wilson, American Ambassador to Ger¬ many. It was hinted that the United States had been concern¬ ed over Germany's failure to pay Austrian debts and the lack of assurance from Berlin that anti- .iewish decrees would not be applied to Americans, living' in Germany.
The details of the interview between the German Charge d'Affaircs and the Acting Secre¬ tary of State ivere revealed by. Mr. Welles himself. It had pi-e- - viously been announced in Ber¬ lin that a strong protest had been delivered against "course and insulting" remarks of Secre¬ tary Ickes in his Cleveland speech. Ambassador Wilson is now in this country and Dr. Hans H. Dicckhoff, the German Ambassador to the United States has been recalled for an equally uncertain period.
Ickr.i' Denunfliition WASHINGTON (WNS) — Secretary of the Interior Harold L, Ickes denounced "a brutal dictator" in liis address last Sun¬ day at a dinner of the Cleveland (Ohio) Zionist Society. Mr. Ickes had •lecried the acceptance of decorations by Americiins from a dictator and tho.se who accept them "automatically foreswear their American birth¬ right." (Mr. Welles said in talk¬ ing to Dr. TUonisen that this critici.sm of Mr. Ford and Col. Lindbergii was a purely domes¬ tic question in which Germany could havf no concern whiitcvcr
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